Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 214-W&C-7331722
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton In Ashfield
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse - Maternity Ward
NHS AfC: Band 6
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Are you passionate about providing the highest quality patient care? Do you have the leadership skills to support and maintain healthcare standards? King's Mill Hospital is looking for a dedicated individual to join our team as a Deputy Ward Leader.
As a Deputy Ward Leader on the Maternity Ward, you will play a crucial role in maintaining and improving the standards and quality of care provided to patients. Your responsibilities will include:
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Acting as the Deputy, regularly taking charge of the ward and ensuring high standards of care and environment.
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Providing effective leadership and role modeling, offering regular direct clinical care.
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Working flexibly within the ward/department team to ensure standards are maintained, evaluated, and improved as necessary.
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Supporting clinical audits and maintaining essential nursing care standards
- Managing day-to-day staff operations, including appraisals, recruitment, disciplinary issues, work allocation, and training delivery.
SFHS' Maternity ward is dedicated to providing the highest quality patient care. We are committed to continuous improvement and supporting our staff to achieve their full potential. If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding leadership role within a supportive team, we want to hear from you. Join us in making a difference in healthcare, apply now and become an integral part of our team!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Must be able to demonstrate attitudes and behaviours consistent with the Trust expectations
- Flexible and adaptable
- Caring
- Enthusiastic and well motivated
- Confidence
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable basic IT skills
- Demonstrate an ability to assess, plan, deliver, prioritise and evaluate patient care
- Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective interventions are put in place
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
- Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans
- Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation
- Competent and capable of using medical equipment
- Able to undertake patient / non patient handling manoeuvres
Desirable criteria
- Audit or research within the clinical area
- Providing staff with feedback on their individual performance and use of the knowledge and skills framework
- Demonstrate an ability to supervise and support others
- Demonstrate effective resource management
- Demonstrate knowledge of current issues related to NHS policies
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
- Demonstrate evidence of providing formal teaching sessions
- Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Level Registered Nurse, with NMC registration
- Suitable teaching qualification / Mentoring Course.
Desirable criteria
- Diploma or degree in health / nursing related studies
- Continuing professional development / reflective profile
- Completion of all local competency packages or has undertaken Working in New Ways Packages relevant to role and specialty.
- Formal leadership and management training
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Mandatory training and updates
- Relevant post basic study e.g. specialist pathway
- Evidence of moving and handling training
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at conferences / study days
- QI / Sherwood6 Change Management Training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience, including some experience within specialty
- Significant experience at band 5
- Supervision of non registered staff, pre registration and post basic students
- Evidence of ability to mentor
- Ability to manage the clinical area or ward efficiently and effectively
- Demonstrate an understanding of the deputy sister / charge nurse role
Desirable criteria
- Research training / experience
- Recent or current experience within the specialty
- Demonstrate an involvement in link nurse, or project work
- Evidence of formal teaching experience
- Experience of leading a team
- Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to effectively lead a team, prioritise workload of self and others, and effective time management skills
- Successful implementation and management of a nursing change process
- Understanding of the role of advocacy
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- NMC registration and revalidation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tilly Paul
- Job title
- Ward Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584628360
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